Albert Eckhout An adventurer who gave us the first account by an Englishman of early colonial Brazil. By Dr. Vivien Kogut Lessa de Sá / 10.12.2016 Lecturer in Portuguese Studies University of Cambridge On a dark night late in 1592, a group of Englishmen was massacred on the island of São Sebastião, off the southeast coast of Brazil. Most had deserted the infamous[…]

Being adopted by Julius Caesar didn’t do Augustus any harm. One swashbuckling charioteer earned the equivalent of US$15 billion. By Dr. Jerry Toner / 11.21.2016 Director of Studies in Classics Churchill College University of Cambridge It is easy to imagine ancient Rome as a society where the emperors, senators and other nobles sat on top of an[…]